Sounds like you need to do some high intensity sphincter holds to really strengthen your fast twitch emergency fart response muscles
Trying to rack my brain for english operas,, I played pit for GianCarlo Menotti's the old maid and the thief, a fun 20th century one.
Most of what comes to mind is older baroque stuff tho
It looks like it was a cozy urban fabric :(
This is a joke but i actually have a low key hatred for rectilinear boundaries
Talk to other music nerd friends, sift through the algorithmic recommendations of spotify/ whatever, browse music forums that match my tastes, use a song identifier to catch random ones in public...
There are lots of ways to find new tunes in 2024. I mostly listen to albums rather than individual tracks so hearing one good song usually leads to several from the same album/ep/lp
Don't borrow grief from tomorrow, because it will come eventually
I had to read the book Zeitoun in high school, detailing an arab-american's experience with the aftermath, but would really like to read other nonliterary things too, gonna watch this thread
The juxtaposition of the challenge and the interview was the novelty that I think gave hot ones its initial appeal though, to be trite the suffering is the point
I still call them the original name of Gen Twitter
Lmao this is the dorkiest way to get what I can only describe as trypophobia willies but from ai vid
Not very sophisticated politically but I trust y'all to be able to parse through the couple of bad takes lol
Martyrdom
This, the basis for sanctification of many of the most memorable saints, (who, after all, could forget saint bartholemew, immortalized in stone with his skin draped over a shoulder in il Duomo of Milan; Or the over 130 cephalophore saints, appearing in all the visual finery to children's holy visions headless -- yet a divine sight, not a gory one.) and similar sacrifice is present in the deeds of all saints. From a catholic perspective, physical committment to a holy cause is quite a common request. There is a risk of american catholics (especially, not solely,) to conflate the church's call to committment to the point of physical harm with the unholy call of capitalism for us to do the same.
As we inhabit the material world (either in anticipation of eternal life elsewhere or not, -see thoughts on calls to materialism as supported by the bible [not written yet]) and are mortal beings, our physical bodies will be/are being sacrificed continually. We may choose to see this as an opportunity for saintlyness, and to direct our physical impact on the world towards the divine. To be rational with our committment, and choose not to seek death, but to commit completely to being a conduit between heaven and earth. If, like the martyred saints, this means we must be killed, then so be it. But long-term committment will be of the greater impact in many of our cases.
It is therefore crucial to discern between the calls for martyrdom of the holy and of the unholy. To reject the call to sacrifice your physical self at the behest of capitalism and its manifesting of satan on earth. In studying the saints, one must be vigilant, and inform oneself of the social and political attitudes of the sanctifying church. The catholic church that sanctified mother theresa is not the same catholic church who sanctified st francis. Equally one ought to study material and materially-derived causes for worldly conflict, and not allow one's mortal hours to be claimed by the allure (or imposition) of capital's desires.
Very welcome to futher comment and rumination
